Saturday, April 27, 2013
Boston.com reports Middlesex County prosecutors are working with federal officials to charge Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the slaying of MIT officer.
Middlesex County prosecutors are working with federal officials in an effort to build a murder case against 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the shooting death of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier on the Cambridge campus April 18, reports Boston.com. A spokeswoman for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office told Boston.com investigators believe they will have sufficient evidence to prosecute Tsarnaev for Collier's murder and should be determining the exact charges soon. The DA's office is looking to speak to anyone who was in the area of Vassar, Main, and Ames streets in Cambridge between 10 and 10:30 p.m. April 18, Boston.com reported. Authorities believe Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, …
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Michael Pelgro has been serving as acting district attorney in Middlesex County.
Governor Deval Patrick announced this afternoon he has appointed Marian T. Ryan as Middlesex County District Attorney (DA), according to a press release issued by Patrick's office. Ryan, who currently serves as the Middlesex DA's general counsel, will assume the responsibilities for the Middlesex County DA's Office as DA Gerald Leone recently stepped down from his post to join a private law firm. A 30-year veteran of the Middlesex County DA's office, Ryan has served as general counsel and chief of the office's elder and disabled unit, the press release said. She has tried hundreds of cases in both district and superior courts and argued more than 40 cases in the Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court. “Marian brings a great wealth of …
Friday, April 12, 2013
Gov. Deval Patrick plans to name a successor next week to outgoing Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone, according to the State House News Service.
Gov. Deval Patrick has named First Assistant District Attorney Michael Pelgro as the acting Middlesex County District Attorney to replace Gerry Leone. Patrick, who made the announcement in a statement on Friday, April 12, plans to announce a permanent appointment to fill out Leone's term next week, according to the Lowell Sun. Voters will elect a new DA in the biennial election in 2014. In January, Leone announced he would not seek a third term. In March, Leone announced he would join a private law firm. Pelgro, in a statement from Patrick's office, said he is honored to take the job. “I am very grateful that the Governor has exhibited the confidence in me, to appoint me to such an important position of public trust,” he said. “I am …
Monday, January 14, 2013
Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian issued a statement last Friday, Jan. 11, in response to inquiries on whether he would run for the Middlesex DA's seat.
Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian is not ruling out a run to become the next Middlesex County District Attorney. Koutoujian, in a statement released last Friday, Jan. 11, in response to inquires on whether he would run to fill the seat Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone plans to vacate, said "never say never." “I love my job as Sheriff of Middlesex County and am focused on the work before me," Koutoujian said in the statement. "One of my guiding principles has always been to never say never to any opportunity in which I can provide benefit to the people I serve. But today, I’d just like to congratulate Gerry on what must have been a difficult decision and thank him for his service to Middlesex County." Koutoujian, a …
Thursday, July 5, 2012
In Middlesex Superior Court on Tuesday, July 3, Craig Conkey was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to the previously unsolved 1992 murder of Lexington resident Kathleen Dempsey.
Her family entered the courtroom and exchanged handshakes and hugs with Lexington Police past and present. “I’m glad we got here,” one of them said. It was just before noon and just shy of 143 months after the day they lost their daughter, sister and friend. At last, they were here, in Middlesex Superior Court, for a bit of belated justice in the 1992 murder of Kathleen Dempsey. Craig Conkey, the man authorities say entered Dempsey’s basement apartment on Lexington’s Ridge Road and brutally murdered the 31-year-old, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to those acts, committed in the early morning hours of Aug. 23, 1992. He was sentenced to life in prison with the eligibility of parole after 15 years. Closure didn't come when Conkey, now a twice-…
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Minutes after Craig Conkey was sentenced to life in prison for the previously unsolved 1992 murder of Lexington resident Kathleen Dempsey, Assistant District Attorney Michael Fabbri said he was humbled by her family's fortitude.
After convicted killer Craig Conkey left Middlesex Superior Court Tuesday shackled with his second life sentence, this one for the 1992 murder of Lexington resident Kathleen Dempsey, the prosecutor's only words were for the victim's family. After years of investigation, it was new forensic techniques and the suspect's own words that helped close the cold case of the, but Michael Fabbri, an assistant district attorney in the Middlesex District Attorney's Office, said Dempsey's family helped bring her killer to justice. “We were driven to stay with this case by the fortitude, the resilience, the sticktoitivness, if you will, by Evelyn Tobin, John, the entire family,” said Fabbri. “We thank them for keeping us on top of this, and we do hope …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Already a convicted murder, Craig Conkey stands accused in the previously unsolved 1992 killing of Lexington resident Kathleen Dempsey.
The next court date in the murder trial of Craig Conkey has been moved up to next Tuesday, July 2. It was previously scheduled for Thursday, July 5, but was bumped up due to a courthouse scheduling conflict. Already a convicted murder, Conkey stands accused in the 1992 murder of 31-year-old Lexington resident Kathleen Dempsey. He's scheduled to be back in Middlesex Superior Court room 430 at 12 p.m. next Tuesday for what many hope could be the beginning of the end of a difficult saga that began nearly 20 years ago. According to authorities, Dempsey was brutally stabbed to death in her basement apartment on Lexington's Ridge Road in the early morning hours of Aug. 23, 1992. An unknown intruder entered Dempsey’s basement apartment during …
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
A pre-trial conference for Craig Conkey, the man accused of killing Lexington resident Kathleen Dempsey almost 20 years ago, is no longer expected to happen tomorrow, as was originally planned.
A pre-trial conference originally scheduled for tomorrow, March 9, in the murder trial of Craig Conkey is no longer expected to take place, a spokesperson for the Middlesex District Attorney’s office said yesterday. Conkey, who pleaded no guilty to the charge of first-degree murder in the previously unsolved 1992 murder of Lexington resident Kathleen Dempsey, is next due in court at 2 p.m. on March 23 for a status hearing, according to Cara O’Brien, spokeswoman for Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone. Conkey is accused in the unsolved 1992 murder of 31-year-old Dempsey, who authorities say was assaulted and stabbed to death during a breaking and entering to her basement apartment on Lexington's Ridge Road. He is already serving a life …
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Kathleen Dempsey's mother and brothers were in Middlesex County Superior Court Monday morning to watch as Craig Conkey was arraigned on a charge of first degree murder in connection with the 1992 previously unsolved fatal stabbing of the 31-year-old Demps
Losing a loved one is tough under any circumstances. So it must be excruciating to watch a family member’s accused killer plead not guilty as he finally faces justice for a horrific crime committee nearly 20 years ago. “It’s been almost 20 years and it was very difficult to be in the same room with that person,” said Evelyn Tobin, standing outside Middlesex Superior Court this morning after convicted killer Craig Conkey pleaded not guilty to the first degree murder of Tobin’s daughter, Kathleen Dempsey. “There was a lot of dread, I think, and anxiety about being in the same room as him. It was difficult for all of us.” Conkey, who was indicted in late December on the previously unsolved 1992 murder of 31-year-old Dempsey, was ordered held …
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Convicted killer Craig Conkey was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court today, Jan. 23, on charges of first-degree murder in the previously unsolved 1992 murder of Lexington resident Kathleen Dempsey.
Craig Conkey this morning entered a not guilty plea to first-degree murder charges in Middlesex Superior Court and was held without bail in advance of his next pre-trial court appearance, scheduled for March 9. Conkey is accused of the previously unsolved 1992 murder of 31-year-old Kathleen Dempsey, who authorities say was assaulted and stabbed to death during a breaking and entering to her basement apartment on Lexington's Ridge Road. He was indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury on Dec. 21, 2011 on the first-degree murder charge following what Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone described as new developments in forensic investigative techniques and statements made by Conkey himself. Appearing in Woburn Superior Court Monday …
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Deb
8:16 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
I think he meant persistence. more ›